Adobe pushes mandataory Beta 6 update for 'Muse' design tool

Adobe "Muse" is a piece of desktop software from the InDesign team that lets graphic designers create websites in a purely graphical format without the need to manually enter any HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. On Wednesday evening, Adobe rolled out the beta 6 build of Muse that includes more than 80 updates and performance enhancements.

This is a mandatory update because Adobe has changed the install and update mechanism of the software. Once this beta is downloaded and installed, future beta builds will be sent automatically. The initial release of Muse is expected to be some time in early 2012, under a different name, as a subscription-only product.

Just some of the improvements in this build include: autoscrolling (when an item is dragged to the edge of the view, the view automatically scrolls in that direction;) improved export and publish times; automatic image resampling for very large images, which optimizes performance; HTML Element ids don't change from one export to the next; new right-click "Delete Unused Styles" action, new "Clear Overrides" button in the Character Styles and Graphic Styles panels; a revised font menu UI, new support for "tel:" and "callto:" prefixes; and many more.

To check out the beta of Adobe Muse (code name) Beta 6, head over to FileForum now!